SharePoint SQL Business Data Connector comes with a simple installer that lets you deploy the solution in a few clicks.
The solution is available for SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013 and 2016. The setup contains one folder for SharePoint 2010, one for 2013 and one for 2016.
You can use the product for free, but there is no support for it from our side. Always trial it in a test environment first before you deploy it to a production farm.
Sign on to the SharePoint server’s console as an administrator or on to one of the SharePoint farm’s servers.
Download the latest release and unzip the setup files to a local folder.
Make sure that the setup has write access to the setup files’ folder.
The worker process pools of your SharePoint Farm will be recycled during installation. Consider which web applications you want to deploy the SQL Business Data Connector to during the setup.
Browse to the folder where you unzipped the setup files. The SP2010 folder contains the setup and solution packages for SharePoint 2010, the SP2013 folder contains the setup and solution packages for SharePoint 2013.
Navigate to …sapiens.at.setup.SQLM\SP201x\SQL Business Data Connector and run Setup.exe as an administrator.
NOTE: All screenshots below were taken from the SharePoint 2013 setup. There should be no differences in SharePoint 2010.
Ignore the security warning and click on Run.
This is the setup’s welcome screen. Click on Next.
The setup will verify the system state. Make sure the SharePoint Administration Service is started. You will have to restart the setup if the verification fails.
Read and accept the License Agreement.
Enter the license key and click on Next.
Select the web applications which you want the SharePoint SQL Business Data Connector to be deployed to.
Setup will now try to validate the key. If the setup can’t connect to the key validation web service (http://keyvalidation.sapiens.at/validate.asmx) it will create a file named unvalidatedSurety…xml in the setup folder. Upload this file to the manual validation page http://keyvalidation.sapiens.at/manualvalidation.aspx to perform an offline validation and download the validated surety file, then store it in the setup folder and rerun the setup.
SharePoint SQL Business Data Connector consists of 2 solution packages that must be added and deployed. This will take a few minutes.
After the last deployment job completes, click Next …
… to view a summary of the installation.
You can verify the installation by viewing the “farm solutions” in Central Administration / Systems settings.
The following 2 solutions must be installed and deployed.
If your SharePoint Server is located behind a proxy or is not permitted to access our online key validation service you will need to perform an offline validation to successfully complete the setup and activate the solution. For offline validation go to http://keyvalidation.sapiens.at/manualvalidation.aspx. The unvalidated surety file which you need to upload is created in the setup folder during the setup process. Upload it, then validate it and download the validated surety file to the setup folder and run the setup again.
After the setup has been completed, please continue with the configuration.
